Syracuse, N.Y. -- For the second time in three days, a fire started in portable toilets outside the Pike Block renovation on the 300 block of Salina Street, closing the block to traffic.

Syracuse firefighters and police responded to the fire at 5:07 p.m. today. When they arrived, flames had spread from the portable toilets to a wooden structure in front of the first floor of the Wilson Building at 320 S. Salina St., which is being renovated.

Fire Lt. John Cussen said firefighters knocked down the blaze in a few minutes, then sprayed the wooden structure and the building with foam to ensure there were no hidden pockets of fire.

Cussen said the fire did not do any damage to the building itself. He said the blaze is under investigation.

Just two days ago at about the same time of day -- 5:47 p.m. -- a fire began in portable toilets just feet away from today's blaze.